These resources are intended to assist Local Project Challenge participants, as well as those hoping to share knowledge and encourage debate about accelerating the SDGs.
We invite you to email [email protected] (subject heading “New Resource”) with any resources you think relevant, such as news reports, articles, talks, book titles, course outline, etc. We will update project resources as they are received.
Outline of Project Resources
- United Nations, SDGs and climate change
- Recent impacts of climate events in the press: need for action
- Kids, climate change and law suits
- Design practices in this space
- Civil society organizations in this space
- Education and ‘think and do’ tanks
- NEW RESOURCES
In addition, you might find it useful to browse the PBBC Resource Platform.
1. United Nations, SDGs, New Urban Agenda and climate change
- Secretary General Guterres pleads for action on climate
- The Sustainable Development Goals Report, 2018, United Nations
- Monitoring the SDGs and the NUA Global Urban Observatory
- The New Urban Agenda 2016
- UNH, Leading the Change: Delivering the NUA through urban and territorial planning, 2018
- SDSN, 2018 Index and Dashboard Report: Global Responsibilities: Implementing the Goals
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): Global Warming of 1.5°C, 2018
- US Fourth National Climate Assessment, 2018
- One New York City, 2018, Global Action: Urban Vision
- World Urban Campaign
2. Recent impacts of climate events in the press: need for action
- 10 worst climate driven disasters of 2018 cost $85 billion
- Australia where it had the highest January temperatures on record
- US Midwest Freezes, Australia Burns, 2019
- Moshe Safdie on designing for climate change
3. Kids and climate change
- School strike for climate action, 03/12/2019
- Australian students Strike4Climate
- Young activists in the US
- ‘On March 15 the climate kids are coming’
3a. Law suits against governments for climate inaction
- Urgenda, Holland, 2015-2018 success
- Can Climate Litigation save the world?, 2018
- Juliana v US 2015
- Juliana v US 2019
4. Design practices – some support the SDGs
- Architecture in Development
- ARUP and the SDGs
- Block by Block
- Community Architects Network (CAN) Thailand
- Elemental, Chile
- Healthhabitat, Australia
- Hollmen Reuter Sandman
- Kaunitz Young Architecture, Australia
- KDI Global
- Openspace, Thailand
- Pitch Africa/Waterbank Schools
- Scape, USA
- Women in Kibera: Climate Warriors, Kenya
5. Civil Society: community development, professional organization, resistance
- Extinction Rebellion
- Sunrise Movement
- 350.org
- Drawdown
- Asia Initiatives, USA and India
- 1 million women, Australia
- Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization
- Huairou Commission
- Slum Dwellers International
- Sticky Situations, South Africa
- User Generated Cities, India
- NYC and SDGs, 2018 Guangzhou Award for Urban Innovation
6. Research, education, think and do tanks
- Design and the SDGs The Oslo Manifesto
- SDSN 2019 A Pathway to Sustainable US Cities: A Guide to implementing the SDGs
- SDSN 2019 Index and Dashboards Report for European Cities,
- TED talk 2015 How can we make the world a better place by 2030?
- Rebuild by Design
- Design and the Green New Deal, Places, April 2019
- Digital Matatus
- Global Utmaning, Sweden
- Habitat Uni
- UNI lecture Co-producing for sustainable cities
- UNI lecture Collaborative partnerships and affordable housing
- Global Studio
- Kate Orff, Translating research into action, 2015
- People Building Better Cities exhibition panels
- Sago Network, Australia
6a. Some critiques of the SDGs and ‘market mentalities’
- How the UN’s SDGs undermine democracy,
- Five reasons to think twice about the SDGs
- Henry Giroux, Where is the outrage? Critical pedagogy in dark times, 2015
7. NEW RESOURCES
May – June 2019
Provided by Arif Hasan (Can the SDGs help with the problems described?).
Provided by Pietro Garau
- SDGs and DiversCity: SDGS and public space target – a paper for the 2019 Rome Public Space Biennale
- Charter of Public Space, Rome 2019
Provided by LPC team
- CatComm/Catalytic Communities, Brazil
- SDGs and targets – icons (useful for a submission)
- For young people: Student Resources
- The Lazy Person’s Guide to Saving the World
- Luisa Bravo, Stand up for Public Space
- Gehl Architects and the SDGs